Not justifying terror, merely quoted NIA: Shakeel Ahmed on IM row

New Delhi: Clarifying his comments regarding the creation of Indian Mujahideen, Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed said on microblogging site Twitter on Monday that he was in no way justifying terror.

Ahmed tweeted today saying that he had merely quoted the NIA. "No sane person can justify terror acts of IM or any other outfit.I simply mentioned NIA`s version in its chargesheet highlighted by media," he said.

Yesterday the Congress leader had tweeted - "Indian Mujahideen (IM) was formed after the Gujarat riots, says NIA in its chargesheet. Even now BJP and RSS will not desist from their communal politics?"

Hitting back, the BJP had said that the remarks were "stupid" and "reprehensible" as the Pakistan links of such outfits were well known and alleged that it was a "desperate" Congress which was actually trying to communalise the political scenario and playing with national security as it had "no answers for all the wrongs" it had done.

"There is this competition among the various Congress spokespersons and leaders to deliberately communalise the country`s political scenario, because they have no answer to stinking corruption, malgovernance, price rice, unemployment, the general sense of suffering the people of India are having," Deputy Leader of BJP in Rajya Sabha Ravishankar Prasad said.